More fun in the sun at the Sarangani Bay Fest 2012!

Expect the Sarangani Bay Festival 2012, Mindanao’s Biggest Beach Party to be more fun and better this year!

The Sarangani Bay Festival or SarBayFest is a two-day event annually conducted by the province of Sarangani to showcase its huge tourism potentials and draw focus on preserving the eco-system of Sarangani Bay.

Now on its 7th year, the SarBay Fest 2012 which has been drawing more crowds each year (with 40,000 expected to come when it unravels on May 18-19), will be more organized and better managed, according to Soccksargen tourism maven Michelle Solon.

“Governor Migs Dominguezhas decided to conduct the main events in a bigger two-hectare venue between White Haven and Rosal Resorts in Gumasa, Glan. The main stage will be there and people can feed themselves at any of the food kiosks which all occupy one portion.”

“An area for a TENT CITY has been proportioned for those who could not be accommodated in the resorts dotting the four-kilometer white sand beach there and even pension houses and inns in the Glan town center have been readied,” she added.

Parking which was a huge problem during the previous festivals has also been addressed.

According to Ms. Michelle, “The main activity center will have ample parking spaces for all vehicles this time.”

One of the most anticipated events of SarBay Fest is the Swim-Across-the-Bay Challenge, where 10 teams will compete to swim the fastest along the 15-kilometer route from Tinoto, Maasim Municipality to Reycon Beach in Tango, Glan Municipality. That should make it the longest open ocean swimming competition in the country.

There is also the youth favorite “Sayaw Sarangan, Hataw sa Tag-araw” a Dance Marathon which will kick off at 9am on May 18 according to the official Sarangani Bay Fest Schedule of Activities. Check out its poster below.

New competitions to be introduced this year are the Fire Dancing Exhibition and the Zumba Party. There is also the Sarangani Swim Challenge 2012 also at Gumasa, Glan. Contestants may compete in any of its three categories: 500 meters, 300 meters and 150 meters.

Crowd drawer Bay Bodies, a search for Sarangani’s Sexiest and Brawniest has been scheduled to delight festival goers on May 18, 2012.

Here is the complete Schedule of Events for the Sarangani Bay Festival 2012 and the contact details of each event host.

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About Avel Manansala

Avel Manansala aka Bariles, is a native of a bustling city down south of Mindanao Island. He is a consultant on Blogging, Social Media, and Marketing . He is co-founder and head of the SoCCSkSarGen Bloggers and manager of Google Business Group (GBG)- General Santos. You may add him to your circles on G+ - http://plus.google.com/+AvelManansala. If you need more info on any of these fields, please leave him a message.

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Bariles is a Filipino word for “Tuna”, the primary source of income of the people of General Santos City which hosts 6 of the Phils’ 8 tuna canneries & more than 80% of its tuna processing plants.

The city boasts of the only “Tuna Festival” in the world celebrated on Sept 5 to commemorate its charterhood.

Bariles is also the alias of this blog's author, Avel Manansala who would like nothing than to write about his beloved city by the bay and share it with his kababayans from all over.

Aside from being a blogger, Bariles is a Google Map Maker enthusiast, the Convenor of the Blogfest Soccskargen, the organizer of the Soccsksargen Experience Tour for Bloggers since 2011 and the co-founder & self-proclaimed mother hen of the Soccsksargen Bloggers. Before his present volunteer capacity as Manager of Google Business Group (GBG) - GenSan, he was the Media Affairs Officer of the City Mayor's Office.

Avel flew to the US in 2014 where he attended the Global GBG Summit in Googleplex, Mountain View, California, with the Managers of the rest of the Top 10 GBG Chapters worldwide, with GBG Gensan ranked as #2.
He also took part in the 2-day Google I/O conference in San Francisco along with 6,000 attendees.
In Sept 2014, he also joined the Google Communities Summit Asia in Sri Lanka.

Avel is a Social Media Consultant and could be found usually working in one corner of the cafes of Gensan.